6 reasons to keep Boston's favorite 6th man

6. The benchmark In today's NBA, you can't rely solely on your starting 5. Just look at this year's voting for the Sixth Man of the Year (Manu Ginobli of the San Antonio Spurs beat out Leandro Barbosa of the Phoenix Suns and Jason Terry of the Dallas Mavericks). Good teams have good sixth men. Would you rather see Brian Scalabrine being the first Celtic off the bench?

6. The benchmark

In today's NBA, you can't rely solely on your starting 5. Just look at this year's voting for the Sixth Man of the Year (Manu Ginobli of the San Antonio Spurs beat out Leandro Barbosa of the Phoenix Suns and Jason Terry of the Dallas Mavericks). Good teams have good sixth men. Would you rather see Brian Scalabrine being the first Celtic off the bench?
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